Name: Bert's Disc Golf Obsession
Uploaded: 2022-05-19T17:10:27.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bert's Disc Golf Obsession' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-05-19. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bert's Disc Golf Obsession' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-05-19. Transcript available.

- The Joe Rogan Experience.
- Wake up in the next city, play some disc golf,
fucking go-- - How'd you get into that?
- Uh, we were in Texas, really big in Texas.
- Really?
- Yeah, really big in Texas.
We were in Texas and I was looking for a way
to get outside, we had just been to Onnit,
and John had given me a kettlebell,
and I said I'm gonna take this kettlebell with me
everywhere I go, that'll be one of my weight loss programs.
And so we walked in, we read the kettlebell,
and we saw disc golf, and I said hey,
we should go play disc golf.
We played in like, I don't wanna say,
like I wanna, probably Dallas, or Sugarland.
And we went out and played, and I fucking fell in love with it.
I used to play in college, and we loved it in college.
And there was not the amount of discs there are now,
back then, and all of a sudden I was like fuck.
So I put up one disc golf video of us playing,
and the disc golf community hit me up,
and they're like, hey man, excited you're into our sport.
All the companies started going, let me send you some stuff.
And we had legit discs, like Innova sent us everything.
And so I saw the disc craft, all these places,
and then we started going out to disc golf.
And then professional disc golfers, like Paige Pierce hit me up,
and she's like, hey you're in Pensacola, I'm here tonight,
why don't you come out and play disc golf with me?
So I was like cool.
And then we're playing with the greatest disc golfers ever,
and they're giving us tips, and we're all getting a lot better.
Like a lot better, and now it's our group, my group of guys,
and we're all playing, we're all getting better,
and we have access to the greatest disc golf courses,
and the greatest disc golfers in the world.
Philo is this guy that is a genius.
He came to my Greek show, I sat with him after the show,
and just talked disc golf, talked forehands.
And it's fun as fucking shit.
How many people are playing that?
Why isn't it like a big sport that it's recognized?
It's blowing up right now.
Is it?
It's getting better?
It's blowing up right now.
Because I had a friend that my friend John used to play it back in New York
in like the 2000, no, it was not, it was, yeah,
I guess it was like the early '90s.
It was like '92-ish, somewhere around then.
And I was like, what are you doing?
He's like, I'm playing disc golf.
I was like, what the fuck is that?
And he was explaining it to me.
It's so much fun.
That's the first time I ever got drunk.
But I see it now.
14 or 15, playing disc golf with my brothers, who are much older than me.
And one little bottle of the Mike's Hard, or it was a Jack Daniels Lynchburg
lemonade,
it was called, I remember, because I'm like, this stuff's fun.
Yeah.
And I've played my whole life, because it was really big in Columbus, Ohio back
then.
And then when I moved to Cali, that's like the mecca,
the oldest disc golf course I believe in the world.
I think it was invented in like Pasadena or something like that.
And awesome golf courses there, especially that one.
I remember that one being cool.
It had like fallen trees that were like leaning against each other, right at
the driving tee
and everything.
Beautiful courses.
So you have to literally, like it's way down there, but you have to first whip
it through
these like massive trees that are right in front of you, that literally like
one fell on
one to another.
So you have to bridge the gap.
Oh dude, you get some beautiful courses where they're like, you got to go
through this long
list of trees.
You know who really, you know what really fucking sparked it dead honestly, is
I played a fucking
couple rounds and I was posted on Instagram.
The first person to reach out was Ben Askren.
Oh, he's a big disc golfer.
He's got his own course at his house.
And he's like, hey man, he built like a 29 whole course at his house.
And he's like, hey man, I got a tournament.
I'd love for you to play in it.
You want to come out?
If you're ever in the area, come out.
A tournament at his house?
He has a tournament at his house.
Ben Askren's fucking legit.
Ben Askren is fucking legit.
And so then I started fucking around, you know, because if I ever get like a
celebrity ever
hits me up, I always play with it on like Aaron Rodgers or any of those.
I play with it on Instagram a lot.
So I throw things like, yo Ben, is this legal?
And fuck around.
And then as soon as Ben started, tweeted about me, the disc golf community
heard about me.
And you can tell if someone's really passionate about something or if they're
not passionate.
And I just, people would hit me up.
I'd be like, I'd send people my shots.
I'd give me notes.
Mostly, I fucked my arm up doing a backhand.
So I've been throwing a lot of forehands.
What do you mean?
You fucked your arm up throwing the golf thing?
Throwing disc golf, yeah.
How much that thing weigh?
173 ounces is what I'm throwing for my driver.
173 ounces is really heavy.
I think it's 173 ounces.
It's 173 is the weight.
Grams?
Grams.
173 grams.
I was like, Jesus, you know how fucking heavy that is?
173 grams.
You know what a one ounce fishing weight feels like?
Oh yeah, that's not it.
Yeah.
But all your numbers, your weights are on your thing.
So like, if you're throwing into the wind, you want to throw a heavier disc.
If you're throwing with the wind, you want to throw a lighter disc.
But I mean, I'm obsessed.
I could watch disc golf all fucking day.
So the, okay, so it's set up in trees.
That's kind of dope too, that they don't have to fuck up the environment, right?
Like they don't have to, you know, they don't have to cut all the grass and
remove all the
trees to make a chorus.
It actually kind of enhances it.
So this is, I think this is Paige.
Is that Paige?
This is Ben's pro-am, so probably.
I think that's Paige Pierce.
It's kind of interesting.
Like why isn't this more popular?
And what made it more popular again?
Like what was the cause of it like having a resurgence?
Well, it's ridiculously popular.
The people that play it, play the hell out of it.
The courses are packed all the time.
It's just like not a mainstream.
What does that mean, ridiculously popular?
In terms of like, oh, we fucked it up.
Type in best disc golf throws.
You'll see guys throwing at 450 feet.
Just don't say numbers.
Be like Joe Biden.
No numbers.
I mean, look at Jomez.
So Jomez is based out of Austin.
I've hit that guy up.
They have a great disc golf channel.
Type in...
Wow, this one's like hole-in-ones?
Yeah.
Oh, so you throw it like that now?
I throw it like that.
Oh, wow.
Yeah, you get addicted.
I fucking love this shit.
So there's like millions of people playing this, you think?
Is it on television?
Is it televised?
No, I was trying to organize a two bears, one cave disc golf tournament
and get a million dollar purse.
You should.
I'm trying.
I'm trying.
That seems like something you guys would totally be able to do.
We do it in Hawaii.
Iniva's got a great course in Hawaii.
Oh, yeah?
Bring all the pros down, do a pro-am the day before, and then do a big
tournament.
These guys are monsters.
And we, I mean, I get access to a lot of things now.
We got access to a minor league stadium the other night, and we get Don Amarillo.
They hit us up, and they're like, "Hey, man, we own the minor league stadium.
You want to come over and play disc golf?"
And we're like, boom.
In the stadium?
I travel with my own goal, my own fucking goal.
Nice.
I travel with it on the bus.
I have maybe 250 discs on the bus.
What?
I have Joe.
Wow.
Dude.
That's crazy.
First of all, Iniva, Discraft, they've all hooked me up amazingly.
MVP discs.
There's so many great discs that I've been hooked up with.
But if I see a disc golf shop, I go and drop a fucking-
You're just all in.
200 bucks.
You're all in on disc golf.
Oh, I'm looking for every Wraith you can possibly have.
I want every cut-up.
Wraith?
I want every plastic that you have.
I want the G-Star.
I want the-
The Wraith is my disc.
It's a great underhand disc.
And so we set up a disc golf course in a minor league stadium.
And I was like, and we're just going to the fucking top decks, throwing from
there,
throwing like 320 feet.
It's fucked.
It was so much fun.